WORCESTER 
Although last night's snowstorm dumped anywhere from 3 to 12 inches in communities throughout Central Massachusetts, police in the region said there were few accidents because people exercised caution and stayed home.

By this morning, the sky was clear and most major roads were down to pavement.

“The plows are cleaning up snow drifts and the ramps,” Sturbridge State Trooper Scott F. Driscoll said this morning. "We've had no accidents—only a few breakdowns.”

State police in barracks in Leominster, Athol and Millbury also reported little activity on roadways and no significant incidents.

In Worcester, National Grid was reporting 878 customers without power in Worcester at mid-afternoon. Those homes were due to have electricity by late afternoon.

Alan E. Dunham, a meteorologist in the Taunton office of the National Weather Service, said there was nothing unusual about last night's storm, but it is going to get cold after the New Year holiday.

“Basically the storm moved up off the Carolina coast and passed southeast New England,” Mr. Dunham said. “Middlesex and Worcester counties and northern Rhode Island were the hardest hit areas. Along the immediate coast, a period of rain held snow amounts down. Now it's going to get cold.”

People can expect sunny skies with high temperatures in the mid to upper 20s today and a mostly clear night with temperatures in the low teens, he said.

“We're starting off the new year with sunny skies in the upper 20s,” he said.

By Tuesday and Wednesday temperatures will be in the single digits, he said, but cold stretches are not really that unusual in New England.

The parking ban in Worcester remains in effect. Fitchburg lifted its ban at noon. The Worcester Regional Transit Authority is on a snow route schedule.

The reduced speed limit has been lifted for much of the Massachusetts Turnpike.